The Postmodern: Judson Dance Theater By Yvonne Rainer

After watching the videos most made me feel same as in our book Bill T. Jones says, “Make something beautiful…Make something that comes honestly from you. Dare to fail.” That is exactly ho I felt after watching most of the videos. They were full of emotions and contact. The movements were very touchy feely and emotional with a story to tell; especially, the one called “What is contact improvisation?” I did reminded me of some of the previous choreographies we watched. I most of the videos there was a lots of ballet movements except the “Rennie Harris Puremovement │ Jacob 's Pillow Dance Festival 2009," which I actually enjoyed the most. I also did see some jazz, and musical, but not tap. If I look at previous video from Bob Fosse and his “Sweet Charity”, I don’t really see any connection between the videos we have see in this chapter. The PostModern: Judson Dance Theater by Yvonne Rainer was very interesting to watch. What I was thinking when I was watching it was that it looks like she is creating choreography and when she is done, somebody like John Cage created music for Merce Cunningham will create music for her dance. I am not sure if that was the case or she was just studying the choreography before connecting it with the music. To describe what was going on in the world to prompt

I really like how they included the puppet in the dance and that later on the puppeteers where actually performing on their own showing that what’s in the background also matters. That was very inspiring and very well done as Kidd Pivot is know for having highly trained dancers. In the video from Ohad Naharin “minus 16”, which we have seen before” I can say that it is Dance Theater and Physical Theater work. The dancers are also highly trained but in a different way than Kidd Pivot’s dancers. Do they end up naked at the end? I wasn’t sure about that